Britain’s Identical Quadruplets Are Now 20
A photograph of one mother holding four tiny babies captured an extraordinary beginning. Born in March 2006, Ellie, Georgie, Jessica and Holly Carles are now 20 years old.
Their parents, Julie and Jose, welcomed the identical girls without fertility treatment. Born at 29 weeks in London, the sisters weighed between 1 pound 9 ounces and 2 pounds 8 ounces. Their arrival and journey home were documented for television.
Growing up, the sisters remained close while developing their own personalities. By their 18th birthday in 2024, they were preparing to follow different paths into adult life.
A November 2026 profile of Julie, now Head of Maintenance at Gonville & Caius College, confirmed the girls were 20 and shared family photographs.
The “11 years ago” caption on older versions of the viral image is outdated—the sisters were born in 2006.
